- Did a totally fresh install of Wheezy on LVM on LUKS using the current 7b4 Debian Installer
- Switched repositories from wheezy to LMDE
- Installed keyring packages
- Updated
- Problem: Cannot upgrade firefox/iceweasel (from version=10) or emacs (to emacs-snapshot) due to problems finding virtual packages
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I recently used the Wheezy/testing version of the Debian Installer (7 beta 4) to install LVM on LUKS on a box, then "converted" it to LMDE by fiddling sources.list and installing the associated *-keyring packages. Afterward, I updated and restarted. It mostly works (particularly there appear to be no repository corruption--e.g., I get no errors or warnings when updating) though there is at least one other major annoyance, in addition to the following 2:
- DI-7b4 installed firefox (aka iceweasel) version=10. When I try to upgrade it to the current version=17, I get
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$ sudo aptitude -s install iceweasel
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xulrunner-17.0{ab}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xulrunner-10.0{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
iceweasel
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 3,044 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xulrunner-17.0 : Depends: libevent-1.4-2 (>= 1.4.13-stable) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libhunspell-1.2-0 (>= 1.2.11) which is a virtual package.
...
$ sudo aptitude -s install libevent-1.4-2
No candidate version found for libevent-1.4-2
...
- I was able to install package=emacs without difficulty. However, that's downlevel (version=23); I usually run the uplevel emacs via package=emacs-snapshot. However, when I try to install that, I get
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$ sudo aptitude -s install emacs-snapshot
The following NEW packages will be installed:
emacs-snapshot{b} emacs-snapshot-bin-common{a} emacs-snapshot-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 92.1 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
emacs-snapshot : Depends: libmagickcore3 (>= 8:6.6.0.4) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libmagickwand3 (>= 8:6.6.0.4) which is a virtual package.
...
$ sudo aptitude -s install libmagickwand3
No candidate version found for libmagickwand3
...
I'm unfamiliar with these errors: how to fix? Given they're both related to virtual packages, I suspect there may be a problem with my configuration. Note that I have
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/etc/apt/sources.list---------------------------------
# sources.list from Debian Installer 7/Wheezy beta 4, adapted to LMDE
# see directions @ http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=101438
# deb http://debian.gtisc.gatech.edu/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
# deb-src http://debian.gtisc.gatech.edu/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
# probably better if one wants whatever is current version=testing
# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
# to get iceweasel==debian firefox more up-to-date than LMDE's: see
# http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=84123
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
# for emacs 24 stable: see http://emacs.naquadah.org/
deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
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/etc/apt/preferences----------------------------------
# APT preferences for LMDE, adapted from directions @
# http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=101438
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: 500
Your assistance is appreciated!
